Breadth Topics

Question 1

Different Depth Topics

Answer 1

Finance
Recruitment 
Changing weaponry 
Naval development 
Army reforms
Naval reforms

Question 2

Finance topics of discussion

Answer 2

Borrowing money, funding tank bank,Taxation, Industry/Agriculture

Question 3

Finance structure

Answer 3

French wars- Banks,fund coalition
19th Century wars
Ww1- Land girls-agriculture, bonds, total war

Question 4

Recruitment Structure

Answer 4

French wars
19th century wars
WW1

Question 5

Recruitment topics

Answer 5

French Wars- Recruiting Sergeants- recruit through courts and pubs, take kings shilling,’scum of the earth ‘
Press gangs- take people from ships, force them into navy
19th Century Wars- Cardwell reforms, recruitment for the navy= fine Army= an issue
WW1- Haldane- BEF, Territorial Army, New Army, Propaganda, Conscription 1916

Question 6

Changing Weaponry Structure

Answer 6

Small arms
Artillery
Cavalry to motorised

Question 7

Changing Weaponry Topics

Answer 7

Small arms- Brown Bess, Baker Rifle,Enfield/Minie rifle (Crimea), Lee Metford(Boer), SMLE (WW1), Machine gun first 1884, Grenades (WW1), Battle of Balaclava thin red line due to rifle
Artillery- 70% deaths artillery, 1855 breach loading artillery William Armstrong, Congreve Rockets, Canons,Muzzle loaded versus breach loaded
Cavalry to motorised- Tanks, Aircraft,Mounted infantry, Combustion engine, Cavalry dominant French wars not after 1855.

Question 8

Naval Development Structure

Answer 8

Sail to steam
Wood to iron
Naval gunnery

Question 9

Naval development Topics

Answer 9

Sail to steam- Graham, HMS Victory, HMS Terrible, Gladiator/Media- Sail-steam Graham ships,Agememnon- steam powered battleship, small sail, Inflexible- Experimentall
,steam, guns larger and central placed, Warrior- Hybrid,sail/steam, Devastation- Steam no sail, Dreadnought- Steam powered turbines
Wood to iron- Victory- wood, Warrior- Ironclad,hybrid, Inexible iron front of ship, Dreadnought- Iron
Naval Gunnery- Fisher reforms, Victory muzzle loaded, carronades,chain/grape shot, Inflexible- Experimental guns larger and central placed,
Warrior- Muzzle and breach loaded after 1855, Devastation- Turret mounted guns 180° shot, Dreadnought- Fisher battery guns, turret mounted, battle of jutland, small guns atop main guns

Question 10

Naval Reforms Structure

Answer 10

Middleton
Graham
19th Century Transition
Fisher

Question 11

Naval Reforms Topics

Answer 11

Middleton: Right at the start of para, Carronades etc.
Graham: Training school in Sandhurst HMS Excellent, Regulation on promotion, Supply of food to Royal Navy alone- forward thinking, Reversed the battle ship reduction, Technology- Medea/Gladiator steam
19th Century transition: Sail to steam- Wood to iron, Naval gunnery
Fisher- Got navy ready for WW1,Days of battleship over, Superintendent of HMS Excellent training school, Technology massive interest, Cost effective, Created RNVR navy, Sold ships a they were ‘too weak to fight and too slow to run away’ Fishers battle cars, Dreadnought

Question 12

Army Reforms Structure

Answer 12

Pre Cardwell
Cardwell
Haldane

Question 13

Army Reforms Topics

Answer 13

Pre Cardwell- Duke of York reforms/Palmerston Reforms- McNeill-Tulloch. Conservative- Officer training,light division, slightly restricted Purchase of Commissions, slightly increase pay, reduce flogging. Palmerston- after Crimea, control of supply, Abolition of Board of Ordinance- McNeill Tulloch
Cardwell: Abolish Purchase of Commissions. Prussian victory- Cardwell uses to abolish purchase.  Banned flogging, banned bounty money for recruits, reduced service from 12 years to 6, made attractive to middle class 
Haldane: On a budget 28 mil, 2 line army: BEF, OTC TA. British expenditory force, Officer Training Class, Territorial Army, made for volunteers due to fear of war. Worked closely with Fisher